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A MOMENT EACH DAY WITH 
GEORGE ELIOT 




GEORGE ELIOT AT 3O. 




COPYRIGHT, 1502, BV ELLA ADAMS MOORE 



C! A«W» «-VXr No. 



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3lanuarj> 

HE time is great, what 
times are little? To the 
sentinel that hour is regal 
when he mounts on 
guard. — Span ish Gypsy, 

2. It's well we should 
feel as life's a reckoning 
we can't make twice over; there's no real 
making amends in this world, any more 
nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by 
doing your addition right. — Adam "Bede, 

3. The golden moments in the stream 
of life rush past us, and we see nothing 
but sand; the angels come to visit us, 
and we only know them when they are 
^on^,— Janet's Repentance, 

4. Self-confidence is apt to address 
itself to an imaginary dullness in others. 
— Daniel Deronda, 

5. Wise books for half the truths they 
hold are honored tombs. — Spanish Gypsy, 

6. Nettle seed needs no digging. — 

Middlemarch, 

7. Neighborly kindness is among 
those things that are the more precious 
the older they get. — Adam Bede. 




3lanuarj> 

LL preciousness to mortal 
hearts is guarded by a 
fear. — Spanish Gypsy, 

9. Our guides, we pre- 
tend, must be sinless; as 
if those were not often 
the best teachers who 

only yesterday got corrected for their 

mistakes. — Daniel Deronda, 

10. Our daily familiar life is but a 
hiding of ourselves from each other be- 
hind a screen of trivial words and deeds. 

— Janet's Repentance, 

11. The happiest women, like the 
happiest nations, have no history. — The 
Mill on the Floss, 

12. Commonness is its own security. 
— Armgart, 

13. You must learn to deal with odd 
and even in life, as well as in figures. — 
Adam Bede, 

14. The higher life must be a region 
in which the affections are clad with 
knowledge. — T)aniel T)eronda, 




3Ianuarp 

|HERE are possibilities 
which our minds shrink 
from too completely for 
us to fear them. — The Mill 
on the Floss. 

i6. People say what they 
like to say, not what they 
have chapter and verse for. — Middlemarch, 

17. The gods have a curse for him 
who willingly tells another the wrong 
road. — Daniel Deronda. 

18. We are poor plants buoyed up 
by the air vessels of our own conceit. — 
Amos Barton, 

19. The charm of fond words van- 
ishes when one repeats them to the 
mdiiitr^DX.—Adam "Bede, 

20. People who seem to enjoy their 
ill-temper have a way of keeping it in a 
fine condition by inflicting privations 
on themselves. — The Mill on the Floss, 

2 1 . Nature, that great tragic dramatist, 
knits us together by bone and muscle, 
and divides us by the subtler web of our 
brains; blends yearning and repulsion, 
and ties us by our heart-strings to the 
beings that jar us at every movement. — 
Adam Bede, 




3Ianuarj> 

NE must be poor to know 
the luxury of giving. — 
Middlemarch. 

23. I will to make life 
less bitter for a few with- 
in my reach. — Felix Holt, 

24. That is a deep and 
wide saying, that no miracles can be 
wrought without faith — without the 
worker's faith in himself, as well as the 
recipient's faith in him. — yimos Barton. 

25. Who shall put his finger on the 
work of justice and say, **It is there!" 
Justice is like the kingdom of God— it is 
not without us as a fact, it is within us 
as a great yearning. — Romola, 

26. A pig may poke his nose into a 
trough and think o' nothing outside it; 
but if youVe got a man's heart and soul 
in you, you can't be easy a-making your 
bed an' leaving the rest to lie on stones. 
— Adam "Bede, 

27. As soon as men found out they 
had more brains than oxen, they set the 
oxen to draw for them. — T(oinola, 

28. Perhaps the wind wails so in 
winter for the summers dead, and all 
sad sounds are nature's funeral cries for 
what has been and is not. — Spanish Gypsy. 




3(anuatp 

HE Highest speaks 

through all our people's 
voice, 

Custom, tradition, and 
old sanctities; 
Or he reveals himself by 
new decrees 
Of inward certitude. — 
Spanish Gypsy, 

30. Do we not all agree to call rapid 
thought and noble impulse by the name 
of inspiration? After our subtlest analy- 
sis of the mental process, we must still 
say that our highest thoughts and our 
best deeds are all given to u^.—Adam 
'Bede, 

31. Our mental business is carried 
on much in the same way as the business 
of the state: a great deal of hard work is 
done by agents who are not acknowl- 
edged.— ^<i<3;w Bede, 



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iFebruarp 

|0 man can begin to mould 
himself on a faith or an 
idea without rising to a 
higher order of experi- 
ence. — Janet* s Repentance, 

2. It's always good to 
know, if only in passing, 
a charming human being — it refreshes 
one like flowers, and birds and clear 
brooks. — Life and Letters, 

3. At the last moment there is always 
a reason not existing before^— namely, the 
impossibility of further vacillation. — Felix 
Holt, 

4. Love is natural; but surely pity and 
faithfulness and memory are natural too. 
— The Mill on the Floss, 

5. The beings closest to us, whether 
in love or hate, are virtually often our 
interpreters of the world. — T>aniel De- 
ronda, 

6. Deep, unspeakable suffering may 
well be called a baptism, a regeneration, 
the initiation into a new state. — Adam 
'Bede, 

7. The exhaustion consequent on vio- 
lent emotion is apt to bring a dreamy 
disbelief in the reality of its cause. — 
^omola. 




iTeftruarp 

HAVE always been think- 
ing of the different ways 
in which Cristianity is 
taught, and whenever I 
find one way that makes 
it a wider blessing than 
any other, I cling to that 
as the truest. — Middlemarch. 

9. Receptiveness is a rare and massive 
power, like fortitude. — Daniel T)eronda, 

10. All eyes can see when light flows 
out from God. — The Legend of JubaL 

11. The yoke a man creates for him- 
self by wrong-doing will breed hate in 
the kindliest nature.— aS/'/^j Marner, 

12. What we call our despair, is often 
the painful eagerness of unfed hope. — 

Middlemarch, 

13. Old maids* husbands are al'ys 
well managed. If you was a wife you'd 
be as foolish as your betters, belike. — 
Amos 'Barton, 

14. The repentance which cuts off 
all moorings to evil, demands something 
more than selfish fear. — Romola, 




iFebruarp 

|OULS live on in perpetual 
echoes. — Middlemarch, 

i6. Better a wrong will 
than a wavering; better a 
steadfast enemy than an 
uncertain friend; better a 
false belief than no belief 
at all. — Daniel Deronda, 

17. Thought 

Has joys apart, even in blackest 

woe, 
And seizing some fine thread 

of verity 
Knows momentary godhead. 

— Spanish Gypsy, 

18. It^s allays the way wi' them meek- 
faced people; you may's well pelt a bag 
o' feathers as talk to ^tTsi,—Adam Bede, 

19. To be right in great memorable 
moments, is perhaps the thing we need 
most desire for ourselves. — Felix Holt, 

20. The fuller nature desires to be an 
agent, to create, and not merely to look 
on. — Daniel Deronda, 

21. The terror of being judged 
sharpens the m^vnoxy. ^Middlemarch. 




jFebruatp 

[HAT prejudices will hold 
out against helplessness 
and broken prattle? — 
Mr. GilfiVs Love Story, 

23. Oh the anguish of 
that thought that we can 
never atone to our dead 

for the stinted affection we gave them. — 

Amos Barton, 

24. Royal deeds may make long 
destinies for multitudes.— iS^^«/j A Gypsy, 

25. Time is like the sibylline leaves, 
getting more precious the less there 
remains of it. — Life and Letters. 

26. Life itself may not express us all, 
may leave the worst and the best too, 
like tunes in mechanism never awaked. 
— Spanish Gypsy, 

27. My life shall grow like trees both 
tall and fair that rise and spread and 
bloom toward fuller fruit each year. — 
The Legend of Jubal, 

28. Cleanliness is sometimes a pain- 
ful good, as anyone can vouch who has 
had his face washed the wrong way, by 
a pitiless hand with a gold ring on the 
third finger.— Mr. GilfiVs Love Story, 




ACH woman creates in 
her own likeness the love- 
tokens that are offered 
to her. — Romola. 

2. You make but a poor 
trap to catch luck if you 
go and bait it by wicked- 
ness. — Adam Bede, 

3. Reverent love has a politeness of 
its own. — Silas Marner, 

4. Life is not rounded in an epigram, 
and saying aught, we leave a world 
unsaid . — A rmgart, 

5. Our dead are never dead to us until 
we have forgotten xh^m.—Adam 'Bede. 

6. Hard speech between those who 
have loved is hideous in the memory, 
like the sight of greatness and beauty 
sunk into vice and rags. — Romola. 

7. We have all of us considerable 
regard for our past self, and are not fond 
of casting reflections on that respected 
individual by a total negation of his 
opinions. — Janet's Repentance. 



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DEAS are often poor 
ghosts; our sun-filled 
eyes cannot discern them; 
they pass athwart us in 
thin vapor, and cannot 
make themselves felt. — 
Janet* s "Repentance, 

9. Affection is the broadest basis of 
good in life. — Daniel Deronda, 

10. There's a sort of wrong that can 
never be made up for. — Adam *Bede, 

11. The truth is the hardest missile 
one can be pelted with. — Middlemarch, 

12. We have all our secret sins; and 
if we knew ourselves, we should not 
judge each other harshly. — Mr, Gilfirs 
Love Story, 

13. So our lives glide on: the river 
ends, we don't know where, and the sea 
begins, and then there is no jumping 
ashore. — Felix Holt, 

14. No good is certain, but the stead- 
fast mind, the individual will to seek the 
good. — Spanish Gypsy, 




E reap what we sow, but 
nature has love over and 
above that justice, and 
gives us shadow and blos- 
som and fruit, that spring 
from no planting of ours. 
— Janet's T^epentance, 

i6. It takes very little water to make 
a perfect pool for a tiny fish. — 'Rpmola, 

17. Ignorant power comes in the end 
to the same thing as wicked power; it 
makes misery. — Felix Holt, 

18. A good solid bit o' work lasts; if 
it's only laying a floor down, somebody's 
the better for it being done well, besides 
the man as does it,— Adam Bede, 

19. A woman should produce the 
effect of exquisite music. — Middlemarch, 

20. For me 'tis what I love determines 
how I love. — Spanish Gypsy, 

21. It is one thing to see your road, 
another to cut it. — Daniel Deronda, 




T is not true that love 
makes all things easy: it 
makes us choose what is 
difficult.— i^^//;^ Holt, 

23. There is a chill air 
surrounding those who 
are down in the world, 
and the people are glad to get away from 
them, as from a cold room. — The Mill on 
the Floss, 

24. When we desire eagerly to find 
something, we are apt to search in hope- 
less places. — Adam 'Bede, 

25. Net the large fish and you are 
sure to have the small fry. — Amos Barton, 

26. Conscience is harder than our 
enemies, knows more, accuses with more 
nicety. — Spanish Gypsy, 

27. Perfect love has a breath of poetry 
which can exalt the relations of the least- 
instructed human beings.— aS/As^j Marner, 

28. There is no hopelessness so sad 
as that of early youth, when the soul is 
made up of wants, and has no long mem- 
ories, no super-added life in the life of 
others.— 37^^ Mill on the Floss. 




:aprfl 

HERE'S allays two /pin- 
ions; there's the 'pinion 
a man has of himsen, 
and there's the 'pinion 
other folks have on him. 
There'd be two 'pinions 
about a cracked bell, if 
the bell could hear itself. — Silas Marner, 

9. We hand folks over to God's 
mercy, and show none ourselves. — Adam 
Bede. 

10. Among all the many kinds of first 
love, that which begins in childish com- 
panionship is the strongest and most en- 
during. — Mr, Gilfirs Love Story, 

11. A passionate hate, as well as a pas- 
sionate love, demands some leisure and 
mental freedom. — Janet's Repentance, 

12. If you are to rule men, you must 
rule them through their own ideas. — 
Daniel T)eronda, 

13. You must love your work, and not 
be always looking over the edge of it, want- 
ing your play to begin. — Middlemarch, 

14. The best fire doesna flare up the 
soonest. — Adam Bede, 




[HEN death, the great re- 
conciler, has come, it is 
never our tenderness that 
we repent of, but our se- 
verity. — Adam Bede, 

i6. No great deed is 
done by falterers who ask 
for certainty. — Spanish Gypsy, 

17. People who live at a distance are 
naturally less faulty than those immedi- 
ately under our own eyes. — The Mill on 
the Floss. 

18. It is seldom that the miserable can 
help regarding their misery as a wrong 
inflicted by those who are less miserable. 
— Silas Marner, 

19. Yes, yes; paternosters may shave 
clean, but they must be said over a good 
razor. — Romola, 

20. Truth has rough flavors if we bite 
it through. — Armgart, 

21. We can hardly learn humility 
and tenderness enough except by suffer- 
ing.— Afr. GilfiVs Love Story, 




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|T IS a sad weakness in us, 
after all, that the thought 
of a man's death hallows 
him anew to us; as if Hfe 
were not sacred too. — 
Janet's 'Repentance, 

23. Perfect scheming 
demands omniscience. — T(omola, 

24. It's poor foolishness to run down 
your enemies. — Adam Bede, 

25. The stronger thing is not to give 
up power, but to use it w^W..— Middle- 
march. 

26. The greatest gift the hero leaves 
his race, is to have been a hero. — Spanish 
Gypsy. 

27. Love gives insight, and insight 
often gives foreboding. — The Mill on the 
Floss, 

28. We are all of us born in moral 
stupidity, taking the world as an udder 
to feed our supreme selves. — Middle- 
march, 



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SHEPPERTON CHURCH. 




*Bede, 



HERE is much pain that 
is quite noiseless. — Felix 
Holu 

30. If you could make a 
pudding wi^ thinking o' 
the batter, it 'ud be easy 
getting dinner,— Adam 




pable.- 



F there is an angel who 
records the sorrows of 
men as well as their sins, 
he knows how many and 
deep are the sorrows that 
spring from false ideas 
for which no man is cul- 
Silas Marner, 



2. The delicate-tendrilled plant must 
have something to cling to. — Mr, GilfiVs 
Love Story. 

3. Iteration, like friction, is likely to 
generate heat instead of progress. — The 
Mill on the Floss, 

4. That is the great advantage of 
dialogue on horseback; it can be merged 
any minute into a trot or a canter, and 
one might have escaped from Socrates 
himself in the saddle. — Adam Bede, 

5. I think cheerfulness is a fortune 
in itself. — Daniel Deronda. 

6. A man's own safety is a god that 
sometimes makes very grim demands. — 
Romola, 

7. Don't let us rejoice in punishment, 
even when the hand of God alone inflicts 
it. — Janet's Repentance, 




[E may strive and scrat and 
fend, but it's little we can 
do arter all — the big things 
come and go wi' no striv- 
ing o' our'n. — Silas 
Marner. 

9. The running brook is 
na athirst for th* rain. — Adam Bede, 

10. Whenever an artist has been able 
to say, **I came, I saw, I conquered,'' it 
has been at the end of patient practice. 
— T)aniel T)eronda, 

11. One of the tortures of jealousy is, 
that it can never turn away its eyes from 
the thing that pains it.— Mr. Gtlfil's Love 
Story, 

12. I believe that people are almost 
always better than their neighbors think 
they are. — Middlemarch, 

13. I choose to walk high with sub- 
limer dread rather than crawl in safety. 
— ArmgarU 

14. The tale of the Divine Pity was 
never yet believed from lips that were not 
felt to be moved by human pity. — Janet's 
Repentance, 




INGLED seed must bear 
JJ a mingled crop. — The 
Mill on the Floss, 

i6. So much of our 
early gladness vanishes 
utterly from our mem- 
ory: but the first glad 
moments in our first love is a vision 
which returns to us to the \2i^\.,—Adam 
*Bede, 

17. Love comes to cancel all ancestral 
hate, subdues all heritage, proves that in 
mankind union is deeper than division. 
— Spanish Gypsy, 

18. There is no killing the suspicion 
that deceit has once begotten.— !??omo/^. 

19. What do we live for, if it is not 
to make life less difficult to each other ? 
— Middlemarch, 

20. Man thinks brutes have no wis- 
dom, since they know not his. — Spanish 
Gypsy, 

21. There's things to put up wi' in 
ivery place, an' you may change an' 
change an' not better yourself when all 's 
said an' done. — Janet's ^Repentance, 




T'S easy finding reasons 
why other folks should be 
patient. — Adam Bede, 

23. In the love of a 
brave and faithful man 
there is always a strain of 
maternal tenderness. — 
Mr, GilfiVs Love Story, 

24. • The effective accident is but the 
touch of fire where there is oil and tow. 
— Middlemarch, 

25. It^s like the night and the morn- 
ing, and the sleeping and the waking, and 
the rain and the harvest — one goes and 
the other comes and we know nothing 
how nor where. — Silas Marner, 

26. I hate your epigrams and pointed 
saws whose narrow truth is but broad 
falsity. — Armgart, 

27. Experience differs for different 
people. We don't all wince at the same 
things. — Daniel Deronda, 

28. Fighting for dear life men choose 
their swords for cutting only, not for 
ornament. — Spanish Gypsy, 




LWAYS there is seed be- 
ing sown silently and 
unseen, and every where 
there come sweet flowers 
without our foresight or 
labor. — Janet's "R^epent- 
ance. 

30. In old days there were angels 
who came and took men by the hand 
and led them away from the city of 
destruction. We see no white-winged 
angels now. But yet men are led away 
from threatening destruction: a hand is 
put into theirs, which leads them forth 
gently towards a calm and bright land, 
so that they look no more backward; 
and the hand may be a little child's. — 
Silas Marner, 

31. I think all lines of the human 
face have something either touching or 
grand, unless they seem to come from 
low passions. — Romola, 




3nnt 

|HE first sense of mutual 
love excludes other feel- 
ings ; it will have the soul 
all to itself. — Adam Bede. 

2, There are natures in 
which, if they love us, we 
are conscious of having a 

sort of baptism and consecration.— M/^- 

dlemarch. 

3. It is mere cowardice to seek safety 
in negations.— The Mill on the Floss. 

4. Strong souls live like fire-hearted 
suns to spend their strength in farthest 
striving action; breathe more free in 
mighty anguish than in trivial ease. — 
Spanish Gypsy, 

5. Them as ha^ never had a cushion 
don't miss it. — Adam Bede, 

6. Errors look so very ugly in persons 
of small means — one feels they are taking 
quite a liberty in going astray. — Janet's 
Repentance, 

7. Our deeds are like children that 
are born to us; they live and act apart 
from our own will. — Romola, 




3Iune 

IHERE are conditions 
under which the most 
majestic person is obliged 
to sneeze. — Middlemarch, 

9. Any coward can fight 
a battle when he's sure 
of winning; but give me 
the man who has pluck to fight when 
he's sure of losing. — Janet's Repentance, 

10. Trouble makes us treat all who 
feel with us, very much alike. — Adam 
Bede. 

11. A mother dreads no memories— 
those shadows have all melted away in 
the dawn of baby's smile.— Afr. GilfiVs 
Love Story, 

12. The thing we look forward to 
often comes to pass, but never precisely 
in the way we have imagined to our- 
selves. — Amos Barton, 

13. There is no kind of conscious 
obedience that is not an advance on law- 
lessness. — Romola, 

14. I couldn't live in peace if I put 
the shadow of a wilful sin between my- 
self and God. — The Mill on the Floss. 




3June 

SUPPRESSED resolve 
will betray itself in the 
^y^^ -The Mill on the Floss. 

i6. Pre-eminence is sweet 
to those who love it, even 
under mediocre circum- 
stances. Perhaps it was 
not quite mythical that a slave has been 
proud to be bought first. — T)aniel 
T)eronda, 

17. Wherever affection can spring, it 
is like the green leaf and the blossom- 
pure, and breathing purity, whatever soil 
it may grow in,— Romola. 

18. Many an irritating fault, many an 
unlovely oddity, has come of a hard 
sorrow. — Mr, Gilfirs Love Story, 

19. There is a wonderful amount of 
sustenance in the first few words of love. 

— Amos 'Barton, 

20. Prudence is but conceit hood- 
winked by \gnov2cac^,— Spanish Gypsy, 

21. The soul without still helps the 
soul within, and its deft magic ends what 
we begin.— TA^ Legend of JubaL 




|LD men's eyes are like old 
men's memories; they are 
strongest for things a long 
way off. — "Hfltnola. 

23. No soul is desolate 
as long as there is a human 
being for whom it can 
feel trust and reverence. — "Romola. 

24. The devil tempts us not — 'tis we 
tempt him. — Felix Holt, 

25. There's no blameless life save for 
the passionless. — Spanish Gypsy, 

26. Much grain is wasted in the 
world and rots; why not thy handful? 
— Armgart, 

27. One's self-satisfaction is an un- 
taxed kind of property which it is very 
unpleasant to find depreciated. — Middle- 
march, 

28. We shall all on us be dead some 
time, I reckon; it 'ud be better if folks 
'ud make much on us beforehand i'stid 
o' beginnin' when we're gone. It's but 
little good you'll do a- watering the last 
year's crop.— Adam 'Bede, 



3Jttne 




GRIFF HOUSE "THE WARM LITTLE NEST WHERE 

HER AFFECTIONS WERE FLEDGED." 



SIMPLY declare my 
determination not to 
feed on the broth of Ht- 
erature when I can get 
the strong soup. — Life 
and Letters, 

30. Sephardo: Resolve 
will melt no rocks. Don Silva: But it 
can scale xh^m.,— Spanish Gypsy. 





E could never have loved 
the earth so vs^ell if we 
had had no childhood in 
it. — The Mill on the Floss, 

2. Nothing is so good 
as it seems beforehand. 

— Silas Marner, 

3. College mostly makes people like 
bladders — just good for nothing but 
t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em. — 
Adam 'Bade, 

4. There has been no great people 
w^ithout processions, and the man who 
thinks himself too wise to be moved by 
them to anything but contempt, is like 
the puddle that was proud of standing 
alone while the river rushed by. — Felix 
Holt. 

5. Susceptible persons are more 
affected by a change of tone than by 
unexpected words. — Adam "Bade, 

6. Honey's not sweet, commended as 
cathartic. — Spanish Gypsy, 

7. There are answers which, in turn- 
ing away wrath, only send it to the 
other end of the room. — Middlemarch, 




3nlv 

T'S a small joke sets men 
laughing when they sit 
staring at one another 
with a pipe i^ their mouths. 
— Adam "Bede, 

9. In the ages since 
Adam's marriage, it has 
been good for some men to be alone, 
and for some women also. — Felix Holt, 

10. The gods of the hearth exist for 
us still; and let all new faith be tolerant 
of that fetishism, lest it bruise its own 
roots. — Silas Marner, 

11. The power of being quiet carries 
a man well through moments of embar- 
rassment. — Daniel Deronda, 

12. There are men whose presence 
infuses trust and reverence. — "Romola, 

13. The best intent grasps but a liv- 
ing present which may grow like any 
unfledged bird. — Armgart, 

14. In moments high space widens 
in the soul. — Spanish Gypsy, 




3nlv 

|ORE helpful than all 
wisdom, is one draught 
of simple human pity, 
that will not forsake us. 

— The Mill on the Floss, 

i6. The homage of a 
man may be delightful 
until he asks straight for love, by which 
a woman renders homage. — JFelix Holt, 

17. Watch your own speech, and 
notice how it is guided by your less con- 
scious purposes. — The Mill on the Floss, 

18. Thee mustna undervally prayer. 
Prayer mayna bring money, but it brings 
us what no money can buy. — Adam Bede, 

19. Every man's work, pursued 
steadily, tends to become an end in itself, 
and so to bridge over the loveless chasms 
of his life. — Silas Marner, 

20. The human soul is hospitable, 
and will entertain conflicting sentiments 
and contradictory opinions with much 
impartiality. — Romola, 

21. Hatred is like fire— it makes even 
light rubbish deadly. — Janet's "Repentance, 




T is the way with half the 
truth amidst which we 
Hve, that it only haunts 
us and makes dull pulsa- 
tions that are never born 
into sound. — 'Romola. 

23. There is a power in 
the direct glance of a sincere and loving 
human soul, which will do more to dis- 
sipate prejudice and kindle charity than 
the most elaborate arguments.— /^//^^V 
^Repentance, 

24. There^s no rule so wise but what 
it's a pity for somebody or oxh^v,—Adam 
Bede, 

25. Perhaps some of the most terrible 
irony of the human lot is this of a deep 
truth coming to be uttered by lips that 
have no right to it.— Felix Holt, 

26. There is no feeling, perhaps, 
except the extremes of fear and grief, 
that does not find relief in music— that 
does not make a man sing or play the 
better.— TA^ Mill on the Floss, 

27. ^ The deepest hunger of a faithful 
heart is faithfulness.— /S^^2»/>A Gypsy, 

28. One morsePs as good as another 
when your mouth's out o' ta.stG,—yidam 
'Bede, 




3lulp 

[Y desiring what is per- 
fectly good, even when 
we don't quite know 
what it is and cannot do 
what we would, we are 
part of the divine power 
against evil — widening 
the skirts of light and making the 
struggle with darkness narrower.— Mid- 
dlemarch, 

30. A foreman, if he's got a con- 
science, and delights in his work, will 
do his business as well as if he was a 
partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a 
man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because 
he didn't get extra pay for li,— Adam 
Bede, 

31. It has been so with rulers, em- 
perors, nay, sages who hold secrets of 
great Time, sharing his hoary and be- 
neficent life — men who sate throned 
among the multitudes — they have sore 
sickened at the loss of one. — Spanish 
Gypsy. 




VERY bond of your life is 
a debt. — Romola, 

2. I like to read about 
Moses best, in th' Old 
Testament. He carried 
a hard business well 
through, and died when 

other folks were going to reap the fruits. 

— Adam Bede, 

3. Was there ever a young lady or 
gentleman not ready to give up an un- 
specified indulgence for the sake of the 
favorite one specified? — T)aniel T)eronda, 

4. The saints were cowards who 
stood by to see Christ crucified: they 
should have flung themselves upon the 
Roman spears, and died in vain — the 
grandest death, to die in vain — for love 
greater than sways the forces of the 
world! — Spanish Gypsy, 

5. There's nothing but what's bear- 
able as long as a man can work. — Adam 
Bede, 

6. When a man gets a good berth, 
half the deserving must come after. — 
Middlemarch, 

7. Ignorance is not so damnable as 
humbug, but when it prescribes pills it 
may happen to do more \\2irm.,— Felix Holt, 




O man can be wise on an 
empty stomach. — Adam 
'Bede, 

9. There is a great deal 
of unmapped country 
within us which would 
have to be taken into 

account in an explanation of our gusts 

and storms. — Daniel Deronda, 

10. What we call illusions are often, 
in truth, a wider vision of past and 
present realities. — Felix Holt, 

11. Often the soul is ripened into 
fuller goodness while age has spread an 
ugly film, so that mere glances can never 
divine the preciousness of the fruit. — 
Silas Marner, 

12. Mrs. Tulliver, as we have seen, 
was not without influence over her hus- 
band. No woman is; she can always 
incline him to do either what she wishes, 
or the reverse. — The Mill on the Floss, 

13. The years deepen the value of 
our past to us, and of our friends who 
are a part of that past. — Life and Letters, 

14. It is very pleasant to see some 
men turn round; pleasant as a sudden 
rush of warm air in winter, or the flash 
of firelight in the chill dusk,— Daniel 
Veronda. 




EANIN' goes but a little 
way i' most things, for 
you may mean to stick 
things together and your 
glue may be bad, and 
then where are you? — 
Silas Marner. 

i6. The presence of a noble nature, 
generous in its wishes, ardent in its 
charity, changes the light for us. — Mid- 
dlemarch, 

17. The very truth hath a color from 
the disposition of the uii^r^v,— Felix Holt. 

18. There's many a good bit o' work 
done with a sad heart. — Adam Bede. 

19. What makes life dreary is the 
want of motive. — MiddlemarcL 

20. Childhood has no forebodings; 
but then, it is soothed by no memories 
of outlived sorrow. — The Mill on the Floss, 

21. I will not feed on doing great 

tasks ill, 
Dull the world's sense with 

mediocrity, 
And live by thrash that smothers 

excellence. — Armgart, 




|HE reward of one duty is 
the power to fulfil an- 
other—so said Ben Azai. 
— Daniel Deronda, 

23. If a prophet is to 
keep his power he must 
be a prophet like Moham- 
med, with an army at his back, that when 
the people's faith is fainting it may be 
frightened into life again. — Romola, 

24. Resignation is the willing endur- 
ance of a pain that is not allayed.— T/i^ 
Mill on the Floss, 

25. One likes a "beyond" everywhere. 
— Felix Holt, 

26. It seems as if them as aren't 
wanted here are th' only folks as aren't 
wanted i' th' other world. — Adam Bede, 

27. Youth thinks itself the goal of 

each old life; 
Age has but travelled from a 

far-off time 
Just to be ready for youth's 

service. — Armgart, 

28. Our words have wings, but fly 
not where we would. — Spanish Gypsy, 




:auffufit 

T allays comes into my 
head when I'm sorry for 
folks, and feel as I can't 
do a power to help 'ern, 
not if I was to get up i' 
the middle o' the night- 
it comes into my head as 
Them above has got a deal tenderer heart 
nor what I've got— for I can't be any- 
ways better nor Them as made me. — 
Silas Marner, 

30. One of the lessons a woman most 
rarely learns, is never to talk to an angry 
or a drunken man. — Adam "Bede. 

31. I can't abide to see men throw 
away their tools i' that way, the minute 
the clock begins to strike, as if they took 
no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid 
o' doing a stroke too much ... I hate to 
see a man's arms drop down as if he was 
shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just 
as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight 
in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go 
on turning a bit after you loose it.— 
Adam *Bede, 




S)eptem6er 

|N inborn passion gives a 
rebel's right. — ArmgarU 

2. We look at the one 
little woman's face wc 
love, as we look at the 
face of our mother earth, 
and see all sorts of an- 
swers to our own yearnings. — Adam 'Bede, 

3. The blessed work of helping the 
world forward, happily does not wait to 
be done by perfect men. — Janet* s liepent- 
ance, 

4. It's a feeling as gives you a sort o' 
liberty, as if you could walk more fear- 
less, when you've more trust in another 
than y' have in youvsGlL— Adam Bede, 

5. Love has a way of cheating itself 
consciously, like a child who plays at 
solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with 
assurances that it all the while disbelieves. 
— Adam Bede, 

6. I say not that compromise is un- 
necessary, but it is an evil attendant on 
our imperfection. — Felix Holt, 

7. When gratitude has become a mat- 
ter of reasoning, there are many ways of 
escaping from its bonds.— Middlemarch, 



g)eptemfter 




EEP, unspeakable suffer- 
ing may well be called a 
baptism, a regeneration, 
the initiation into a new 
state. — Adam Bede. 

9. The shallowness of 
a water-nixie's soul may 

have a charm until she becomes didactic. 

— Middlemarch, 

10. Fm not denyin* the women are 
foolish: God Almighty made 'em to 
match the mtn,— Adam Bede, 

11. Excellence encourages one about 
life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth 
of the world. — Daniel Deronda, 

12. Men who are sour at missing 

larger game 
May wing a chattering sparrow 
for revenge. — Spanish Gypsy, 

13. Speech is often barren; but silence 
also does not necessarily brood over a 
full ntst,— Felix Holt, 

14. Souls have complexions too: 
what will suit one will not suit another. 
— Middlemarch, 



M^ 




S)eptemfter 

lEMESIS is lame, but she 
is of colossal stature, 
like the gods. — Janet*s 
'Repentance, 

1 6. Poor relations are 
undeniably irritating — 
their existence is so en- 
tirely uncalled for on our part.— 77r^ Mill 
on the Floss, 

17. In the man whose childhood has 
known caresses there is always a fibre of 
memory that can be touched to gentle 
issues. — Janefs ^Repentance, 

18. In God's war slackness is infamy. 
— Spanish Gypsy, 

19. A man with a definite will and 
an energetic personality acts as a sort of 
flag to draw and bind together the 
foolish units of a mob. — Felix Holt, 

20. With the sinking of high human 
trust, the dignity of life sinks too. — 
Roma la, 

21. Great love has many attributes, 
and shrines for varied worshippers. — 
— Spanish Gypsy, 




September 

HERE are glances of 
hatred that stab and raise 
no cry of murder. — Felix 
Holt, 

23. Who can tell what 
just criticisms Murr the 
Cat may be passing on us 
beings of wider speculation? — Middle- 
march, 

24. It is a great gift of the gods to 
be born with a hatred and contempt of 
all injustice and meanness. — "Romola, 

25. Let us bind love with duty: for 
duty is the love of law; and law is the 
nature of the Eternal. — Daniel T)eronda, 

26. I own no love but such as guards 
my honor. — Spanish Gypsy, 

27. A patronizing disposition always 
has its meaner side. — Adam 'Bede, 

28. A loving woman^s world lies 
within the four walls of her own home. 
—Amos Barton, 




S)eptember 

HAT greater thing is there 
for two human souls, than 
to feel that they are joined 
for life— to strengthen 
each other in all labor, to 
rest on each other in all 
sorrow, to minister to 
each other in all pain, to be one with 
each other in silent unspeakable memo- 
ries at the moment of the last parting? 
— Adam Bede, 

30. See the difference between the 
impression a man makes on you when 
you walk by his side in familiar talk, or 
look at him in his home, and the figure 
he makes when seen from a lofty histor- 
ical level, or even in the eyes of a critical 
neighbor, who thinks of him as an em- 
bodied system or opinion rather than as 
a msin,— Adam Bede, 




MILLY barton's COTTAGE. 



g 




flDctober 

|UT how will you find 
good? It is not a thing of 
choice: it is a river that 
flows from the foot of the 
Invisible Throne, and 
flows by the path of obe- 
dience.— i^owo/^. 

2. It is a vain thought to flee from 
the work that God appoints us.— Adam 

Bede, 

3. A woman, let her be as good as 
she may, has got to put up with the life 
her husband makes for h&x.— Middle- 
march, 

4. I know the dancin's nonsense; but 
if you stick at everything because it's 
nonsense, you wonna go far i' this life.— 
Adam Bede, 

5. A bachelor's children are always 
young: they're immortal children— always 
lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a 
chance of turning out good. — Felix Holt. 

6. Worldly faces never look so 
worldly as at a iun&xdX.—Janefs Repent- 
ance, 

7. We can set a watch over our affec- 
tions and our constancy as we can over 
other tvQSLSures.—Middlemarch, 




€>ctofter 

MAKE it a virtue to be 
content with my mid- 
dlingness; it is always 
pardonable, so that one 
does not ask others to 
take it for superiority. — 
T)aniel T)eronda, 

9. No man is matriculated to the 
art of life until he has been well tempted. 
— Romola, 

10. Language is a stream that is al- 
most sure to smack of a mingled soil. — 
Silas Marner. 

11. There are things we must re- 
nounce in life; some of us must resign 
love. — The Mill on the Floss, 

12. "Ignorance'^ says Ajax, "is a 
painless evil"; so, I should think, is dirt, 
considering the merry faces that go along 
with it.— Mr. GilfiVs Love Story, 

13. Our deeds determine us, as much 
as we determine our deeds. — Adam Bede, 

14. Signs are small measurable things, 
but interpretations are illimitable.— Af/rf- 
dlemarch. 




OPctober 

|E are pitiably in subjec- 
tion to all sorts of vanity 
— even the very vanities 
we are practically re- 
nouncing. — Felix Holt, 

i6. Every man, who is 
not a monster, a mathe- 
matician, or a mad philosopher, is the 
slave of some woman or other. — Amos 
*Barton, 

17. The soul of man when it gets 
fairly rotten will bear you all sorts of 
poisonous toadstools. — Middlemarch. 

18. We are very much indebted to 
such a linking of events as makes a doubt- 
ful action look wrong. — Felix Holt. 

19. I will seek nothing but to shun 
base joy. — Spanish Gypsy, 

20. There is no sense of ease like the 
ease we felt in those scenes where we 
were born. — The Mill on the Floss, 

21. Human feeling is like the mighty 
rivers that bless the earth; it does not 
wait for beauty — it flows with resistless 
force, and brings beauty with it,— Adam 
Bede, 




€)eto&er 

ALF the sorrows of women 
would be averted if they 
could repress the speech 
they know to be useless 
—nay, the speech they 
have resolved not to 
utter. — Felix Holt. 

23. Scepticism, as we know, can never 
be thoroughly applied, else life would 
come to a sX.2ind-%Xi\\,—Milddlemarch, 

24. There's more of odd than even 

in this world. 
Else pretty sinners would not be 

let off 
Sooner than ugly. — Spanish Gypsy, 

25. I have nothing to say again' 
Craig, on'y it's a pity he couldna be 
hatched o'er again, an' hatched different. 
— Adam 'Bede, 

26. It is possible to have a strong self- 
love without any self-satisfaction, rather 
with a self-discontent which is the more 
intense because one's own little core of 
egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. 
— Daniel T)eronda, 

27. Among all forms of mistake, 
prophecy is the most gratuitous.— M/(i- 
dlemarch, 

28. Falsehood is so easy, truth so dif- 
ficult. — Adam 'Bede. 



flDetofter 




30. 



OVE does not aim simply 
at the conscious good of 
the beloved object; it is 
not satisfied without per- 
fect loyalty of heart; it 
aims at its own complete- 
ness. — Romola, 



Thoughts 
That nourish us to magnanimity 
Grow perfect with more perfect 

utterance, 
Gathering full-shapen strength. 

— Spanish Gypsy, 

31. The strength of the donkey mind 
lies in adopting a course inversely as the 
arguments urged, which, well consid- 
ered, requires as great a mental force as 
the direct sequence. — Adam Bede, 




]HERE is always a stronger 
sense of life when the sun 
is brilliant after rain. — 
Adam "Bede, 

2. Animals are such 
agreeable friends — they 
ask no questions, they 

pass no criticisms. — Mr, Gilfirs Love 

Story, 

3. She who willingly lifts up the veil 
of her married life has profaned it from 
a sanctuary into a vulgar place. — Romola, 

4. There's debts we can't pay like 
money debts, by paying extra for the 
years that have slipped by. — Silas Marner, 

5. Blows are sarcasms turned stupid: 
wit is a form of force that leaves the 
limbs at rest. — Felix Holt, 

6. Dear me ! Why will people take 
so much pains to find out evil about 
others? — Amos Barton, 

7. A feeling of revenge is not worth 
much, that you should care to keep it. 

— The Mill on the Floss, 




iI5otoemfter 

VEN a wise man generally 
lets some folly ooze out 
of him in his will. — T)aniel 
Deronda, 

9. I suppose all phrases 
of mere compliment have 
their turn to be true. A 
man is occasionally grateful when he 
says "thank you." — The Mill on the Floss. 

10. I would change with nobody, 
madam. And if troubles were put up to 
market, I'd sooner buy old than new. 
It's something to have seen the worst. — 

Felix Holt, 

11. It is a wonderful subduer— this 
need of love. — The Mill on the Floss, 

12. A diffident man likes the idea of 
doing something remarkable, which will 
create belief in him without any imme- 
diate display of brilliancy. — Felix Holt, 

13. By being contemptible we set 
men's minds to the tune of contempt. — 

Middlemarch, 

14. There's nothing like settling with 
ourselves as there's a deal we must do 
without i' this life. It's no use looking 
on life as if it was Treddles'on fair, where 
folks only go to see shows and get idxr- 
\ngs,—Adain Bede. 




OU^RE mighty fond o' 
Craig; but, for my part, 
I think he's welly like a 
cock as thinks the sun's 
rose o' purpose to hear 
him crow.— Adam Bede. 

i6. The right word is 
always a power, and communicates its 
definiteness to our action,— Middiemarch, 

17. O the anguish of the thought that 
we can never atone to our dead for the 
stinted affection we gave them. — Amos 
Barton. 

18. The higher life begins for us, my 
daughter, when we renounce our own 
will to bow before a divine law. — Romola, 

19. Blessed is the man who, having 
nothing to say, abstains from giving us 
wordy evidence of the fact. — Theophrastus 
Such, 

20. Constancy in mistake is constant 
folly. — Felix Holt, 

21. 'Tis a vile life that like a garden 

pool 
Lies stagnant in the round of 
personal loves. 

— Spanish Gypsy, 




HJotoember 

|F you want to slip into a 
round hole, you must 
make a ball of yourself. 
— The Mill on the Floss, 

23. Particular lies may 
speak a general truth. — 
Spanish Gypsy, 

24. A mother's love, I often say, is 
like a tree that has got all the wood in 
it, from the very first it made. — Daniel 
T)eronda, 

25. Necessity does the work of cour- 
age. — Romola, 

26. A woman's lot is made for her 
by the love she accepts. — Felix Holt, 

27. I'd rether given ten shillin' an' 
help a man to stand on his own legs, 
nor pay half-a-crown to buy him a parish 
crutch. — Janet*s Repentance. 

28. Breed is stronger than pasture.— 
Silas Marner, 



5I?oi)ember 




GEORGE ELIOt'S STUDY WINDOW IN COVENTRY. 



IFE never seems so clear 
and easy as when the 
heart is beating faster at 
the sight of some gen- 
erous self-risking deed. 
— Romola, 

30. It's poor eating where 
the flavor o' the meat Hes i' the cruets. 
There's folks as make bad butter, and 
trusten to the salt t' hide it,— Adam Xede, 





japecemfter 

IHINGS are achieved when 
they are well begun. 
The perfect archer calls 

the deer his own 
While yet the shaft is 
whistling. 

— Spanish Gypsy, 

2. Energetic natures, strong for all 
strenuous deeds, will often rush away 
from a hopeless sufferer, as if they were 
hard-hearted. It is the over-mastering 
sense of pain that drives them. — Adam 
'Bede, 

3 . Notions and scruples are like spilled 
needles, making one afraid of treading, 
or sitting down, or even ^2i\xng,— Middle- 
march. 

4. Human longings are perversely 
obstinate; and to the man whose mouth 
is watering for a peach, it is of no use to 
offer the largest vegetable marrow. — Mr, 

Gilfirs Love Story, 

5. I enter into no plots, but I never 
forsake my colors. — Romola, 

6. Under protracted ill every living 
creature will find something that makes 
a comparative ease. — Felix Holt, 

7. I measure men's dullness by the 
devices they trust in for deceiving others. 
— Romola, 




2>etember 

|TRONG love hungers to 
bless and not merely to 
behold blessing. — Daniel 
T)eronda. 

9. I think half those prig- 
gish maxims about human 
nature in the lump are no 
more to be relied on than universal reme- 
dies. There are different sorts of human 
nature. — Felix Holt. 

10. The man who awakes the wonder- 
ing tremulous passion of a young girl 
always thinks her affectionate.— ^<^^w 

Bede, 

11. In marriage, the certainty, "She 
will never love me much," is easier to 
bear, than the fear, **I shall love her no 
more. ' ^ — Middlemarch. 

12. It is the lot of every man who has 
to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, 
that he must often speak in virtue of 
yesterday's faith, hoping it will come 
back to-morrow. — Romola, 

13. There's folks 'ud hold a sieve 
under the pump and expect to carry 
away the water. — Adam Bede, 

14. Surely, surely the only true knowl- 
edge of our fellowman is that which 
enables us to feel with him. — Janet's 
Repentance. 




December 

ESPAIR no more leans on 
others than perfect con- 
tentment. — Adam 'Bede, 

i6. Certainly the mis- 
takes that we male and fe- 
male mortals make when 
we have our own way 
might fairly raise some wonder that we 
are so fond of it. — Middlemarch, 

17. To have in general but little feel- 
ing seems to be the only security against 
feeling too much on any particular 
occasion. — Middlemarch, 

18. There's no pleasure i' living if 
you're to be corked up for iver, and only 
dribble your mind out by the sly, like a 
leaky barrel. — Adam Bede, 

19. Our lives make a moral tradition 
for our individual selves, as the life of 
mankind at large makes a moral tradition 
for the race; and to have once acted 
greatly seems a reason why we should 
always be noble. — Romola, 

20. In love's spring all good seems 
possible. — Spanish Gypsy, 

21. It is always chilling, in friendly 
intercourse, to say you have no opinion 
to give. — The Mill on the Floss, 




Specemfter 

ROM the British point of 
view mascuHne beauty is 
regarded very much as it 
is in the drapery business: 
— as good solely for the 
fancy department — for 
young noblemen, artists, 
poets, and the chrgy.— Felix Holt, 

23. **0 may I join the choir 

invisible, 
Of those immortal dead who 

live again 
In minds made better by their 

presence. — Poem, 

24. An old friend is not always the 
person whom it is easiest to make a con- 
fident of. — Middlemarch, 

25. Examine your words well, and 
you will find that even when you have no 
motive to be false, it is a very hard thing 
to say the exact Xxuih.,— Adam Bede, 

26. There are moments when our 
passions speak and decide for us, and we 
seem to stand by and wonder,— "Romo la. 

27. A great idea is an eaglets egg, 
craves time for ]\2Xching,—Stradivarius, 

28. Were another childhood-world 

my share, 
I would be born a little sister 
there. — Brother and Sister, 




SUecemftet 

OW IS It that the poets 
have said so many fine 
things about our first 
love, so few about our 
later love? Are their first 
poems their best? or are 
not those the best which 
come from their fuller thought, their 
larger experience, their deeper-rooted 
a.ikctions?— Adam Bede, 

30. There are so many things wrong 
and difficult in the world, that no man 
can be great — he can hardly keep him- 
self from wickedness— unless he gives 
up thinking much about pleasure or 
rewards, and gets strength to endure 
what is hard and painful. — Romola. 

31, May I reach 
That purest heaven, be to other 

souls 
The cup of strength in some 

great agony. 
Enkindle generous ardor, feed 

pure love. 
So shall I join the choir invisible 
Whose music is the gladness 

of the world. — Poem, 



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